Contraception is an economic issue

5:12 PM,
Oct. 3, 2012

Written by

Amanda Marcotte

Ever since women's rights activists started to use the phrase "war on women" to describe attacks on women's rights in recent years, Republicans have dismissed the concept as a "distraction." Not so much of a distraction that they need to stop waging it, of course.

Republican state legislatures passed a record-setting number of abortions restrictions in 2011 and 2012, and Congress spent inordinate amounts of time passing go-nowhere abortion bans and contraception restrictions, and trying to gut Planned Parenthood's budget, even threatening twice to shut down the government rather ...